The major achievements made by various programmes under Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) include recognition to around 1400 in-house R & D Units established by industries; reporting Rs 8694 crore of R & D expenditure incurred by approved in-house R & D units of industries over first four years of 11th five year plan to DG (Income Tax0, exemtion for claiming weighted tax deducton @ 200%; support to 40 projects of industries for development and demonstration of innovative product and process technologies and support to 260 projects of individual innovators for converting their scientific innovative ideas into models and prototypes over the first foure years of 11th five year plan.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Shri Ashwani Kumar in a written reply to a question by Shri Dhruva Narayana in Lok Sabha today.